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description: He cursed his unborn child, saying “If the child gives all this trouble now, what terrible trouble it will give when it is grown up! Who acts: Latif, child, terrible trouble. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 173

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He cursed his unborn child, saying “If the child gives all this trouble now, what terrible trouble it will give when it is grown up!

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**Who acts:** Latif, child, terrible trouble · **What happens:** curse, say, give, grow up · **To what, where:** unborn child, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Latif, child, terrible trouble), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:9:173
# text = He cursed his unborn child, saying “If the child gives all this trouble now, what terrible trouble it will give when it is grown up!
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cursed	curse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	unborn	unborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
19	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curse** | past | Latif | Latif's unborn child |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund | Latif *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | the child | all trouble |  |  | now |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | future | terrible trouble |  |  |  |  | what *obj*; trouble *nsubj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 5 | **grow up** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | trouble |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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